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I'm 51 now. This was a significant event in my life. I had various surgeries every couple of years, and my mother was reasonably sure I wasn't going to make 1 year old. I was fortunate to have amazing medical staff and talented surgeons looking after me for almost 15 years of operations, check ups, remedial speech therapy abd dental work, up to and including a bone graft to seal the hole in the roof of my mouth. The UK NHS covered all of this work with no out of pocket expenses for my parents. It's quite likely that the family would have gone bankrupt if we lived in the US.

@toxicmuscularity

5 ай бұрын

Hail socialism

@meeguelangelo

5 ай бұрын

​@@toxicmuscularity ...the UK doesn't have a socialist structure...

@clarissagafoor5222

5 ай бұрын

​@@toxicmuscularitysilly comment.

@maryroberts9315

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story. I had no idea it took so many follow-up surgeries.

@nehriim3748

5 ай бұрын

@@toxicmuscularity you make socialism sound good

I always thought it was just a frontal issue, I didn't know it affected the palate in such a drastic way.

@rdizzy1

5 ай бұрын

Well it is possible to have a cleft lip, without the palate being involved, which would be just the "frontal" part.

@xiaoling5734

5 ай бұрын

​@@rdizzy1 Yess indeed. For example me, I only had a cleft lip, without the palate. Lucky, otherwise I had a whole lot more issues/complications and surgeries.

@ShignBright

5 ай бұрын

@@xiaoling5734 Same here! My little brother is really lucky, he had two clefts in his upper lip (Bilateral) and no palate. Although my palette may be a LITTLE messed up, for example I have an extra tooth and pretty crooked teeth in general... All that means is I have a unique smile :D

@gregoryturk1275

4 ай бұрын

@@learntolearnl2lUnlucky probably

@cooperrampenelli5756

3 ай бұрын

@@learntolearnl2lignorant ass comment

Just the explanation of wrapping at the very beginning, instead of growing, was really interesting. Never heard the before

@watermelonwishes4193

5 ай бұрын

I never knew it grew that way either and I was born with a cleft palate. lol

Wow, I only knew a small fraction of this. You packed a big part of a few college level bio classes into 11 minutes of digestible data! This channel is awesome.

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Lauren!

@cw4608

4 ай бұрын

He is a gifted teacher isn’t he?

I'm 18 and still going through surgeries for the cleft lip and pallet! This may seem like I'm overstating how many surgeries I've had, but I've had 29 for this and I'm overstating how many surgeries, though I didn't know so many others have had this issue.. its honestly refreshing to see so many people that are like me in a few ways.. I thought that the cleft lip and palate wasn't as common as it was! thank you so much for covering this, it means the world to me

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Hope things are going well for you!

@tealeaf02

5 ай бұрын

I'm 21 and one year away from my last expected surgery with my cleft lip and palate! Good luck with your surgeries, the medical field is amazing!

@green29373

5 ай бұрын

Good luck with any future surgeries! Yea, it is a rare thing to see a bunch of other people with cleft palates share their experiences. I have had less surgeries overall (no solid number as there are a bunch of grey areas for me on what counts as a ‘surgery’ like ear tube replacement). My doctors say that I will also have to do more surgery in the future when i am 18 like you. I have a fear of surgeries and hearing that i am not alone makes me a lot more relaxed. Currently have braces to try to fix my teeth for future stuff, more braces after too. Thank you for sharing your experience!

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

Hugs to you! My kiddo is at 5 @ 2.5 years. It’s a much more complex and long road than many people assume. I hope the final surgeries go well for you! ❤

@kaylarm20

4 ай бұрын

@@green29373 sending you all the love for your future surgeries

My daughter was born with cleft lip and palate and has had multiple surgeries like you said. She's 10 now and needs a bone graft next to fix the gums and teeth. At 15, she's supposed to have a final surgery to fix her nostril where it looks a little flattened. The lip repair looks great though and you can't even tell she ever had a cleft. I'm thankful that we were able to get Medicaid to pay for all of it. I'm not sure why we qualified for it because we don't have low income so maybe it's because she was born with it.

@user-zz9ht8bq9s

5 ай бұрын

Our 💕 Hearts, thoughts & hope that everything is good & on the road to life long happiness... Love always lights the way... Best wishes, Paul/🇬🇧UK.

@ajnazatahm

5 ай бұрын

I’m happy to hear she qualified for it!! Happy when my taxes go to something worthwhile ❤

@supernova4760

5 ай бұрын

I am sending positive vibes your way.

@triadwarfare

5 ай бұрын

It sucks if you had to pay for it. It would have been life-changing expensive considering how high US doctors charges compared to the rest of the world. Some people even would visit third world countries and have their surgeries on their best hospitals there and would have cost them less than the US even including the plane ticket.

@squishy_cat2

5 ай бұрын

Good luck to her. Mine on the outside isn't noticeable but it is for sure a pain internally. I consider it a cool fact but when sick I think it just occurred to me that we are numb in areas normal people aren't so it likely doesn't feel identical to normal people. Also just in general I hope she knows it doesn't make her weird but it is part of her and she shouldn't have to try and forget it as I'm sure she will have unspoken things you can never understand fully. Apart from all the surgeries.

my grandson was born with cleft lip and palate all the way back. they put tubes in his ears because of draining issues. His mother's father has the same thing and my grandson's mom was born deaf. We were told the deafness is part of the syndrome. My grandson is 17 and has had most of his operations. His hearing is not affected, he has no self-esteem issues and is doing excellent.

@user-zz9ht8bq9s

5 ай бұрын

That's awesome hearing that guys, hearing other people's story's, & all's good & thier happy helps warms the heart & soul off us all... All the Best! 💕

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

Interestingly, the deafness that comes from cleft is due to not treating the ears with tubes from infancy. Hearing loss and deafness has been dramatically reduced since this has become common practice. (My kiddo is a cleftie and our doctors are amazing at explaining all of this to us).

When I was in high school, I knew a girl with a really bad cleft lip and no one bullied her, everyone was super protective of her and wanted to make sure no one treated her like shit. It's fascinating to me because I had birth defect as well, but it was on the back of my head. I was bullied relentlessly for it and it genuinely confused me as well as surprised me that, when she popped up, everyone treated her well. At least she didn't have to deal with it like I did.

One thing I’ve always loved about these videos is how delicate and respectful you are to the donors who’s selflessly gave their bodies up for science and education so future generations can learn from real human tissues.

Geez I’m learning more about the human body from this channel then I did in all of my science classes in school

I was born with a cleft in my lip and palate which required two surgeries as a baby to correct. Later I had to have orthodontics because the narrower than normal palate gave me crooked/crowded teeth. So before i could get braces I had to have palate expansion surgery(S.A.R.P.E.) done to give my teeth space to spread apart. Two years later I had to get yet another surgery for aligning the maxilla. (Maxillary osteotomy). Possible topic for a future video, perhaps? Appearance-wise it's not very noticeable aside from a vertical scar on my lip, but there's a lot of scar tissue inside my mouth. I'm very fortunate that my family had migrated to a country with free health care only 2 years before I was born, or else I may have had to grow up with and live with the cleft. My parents didn't do a very good job explaining any of this to me, so I've had to research a lot on my own. I only wish I had a resource like this video when I was a kid.

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the information! Definitely planning on a follow up video that’s based on surgical treatment. Glad you enjoyed the video!

I just love the way you teach, the way everything's explained in all your videos. It is all just so amazing.

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@typograf62

5 ай бұрын

And the 3D + time demonstration of parts of the evolving foetus was really good.

@jennyrealight1860

5 ай бұрын

@@typograf62 Absolutely

@jennyrealight1860

5 ай бұрын

@@theanatomylab YW and thank you for letting us into that world.

I have bilateral cleft lip and palate. A severe case and my surgeons abandoned my case when i was 15 cuz i was going thru serious issues at home being abused in horrible ways and kicked out. I feel so much regret. No one now will help me because i need a special team. I have unfinished business and i feel just … ugly lol. Sad . But thanks for bringing light to people like me

@thecook8964

5 ай бұрын

Research how you can get help. Don't give up. Go fund me page? Also a therapist on a sliding scale can help you deal with the fallout from the scum at home. Don't click with your therapist? Keep trying other ones. Contact Smile Train the ACPA for advice as your older

As a young RN back in the early 70's I often cared for these babies, and I saw many. They were hospitalized due to the issues of feeding. Most of them required tube feeding else they just would not get enough nutrition because their suck was inefficient. I was probably seeing the worst of the worst but plastic surgery was getting very good at that time, we sent home many success stories.

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

The Dr Browns special feeder bottles are amazing! Simple design, but allow most clefties to be home with no tube!

@ArDeeMee

4 ай бұрын

They are the only babies that don’t suck. 🫣 Modern medicine is awesome. =)

My nephew had double cleft lip and a total cleft pallet. Amazingly it was never picked up on ultrasound so was a surprise when he was born. We are from the uk so thankfully we didn't have to pay for the many surgeries and therapies he needed.

I had a cleft pallette. It did not extend to my lip; not even to my teeth. It was just a singular hole in the roof of my mouth. They pulled and folded surrounding tissue over the gap. So, I've always had this fold of tissue on the roof of my mouth. On very rare occasions, a bit of food gets stuck in there.

@squishy_cat2

5 ай бұрын

Me too though not food getting stuck. I do have a weird scar that does seem that could happen. The orthodontist I guess wouldn't have known it was a cleft palate as when getting a palate extender device he said the scar looked like how the scar can look if people had their palate surgically extended? I'm not sure how accurate that is though as I literally had a huge hole up to my nose which normal people don't have. Sometimes I do question if the scar may have a hole still to my nose as it behaves a bit questionable at times. Also I had no uvula do you? Mine had to be built and looks small so I'm super weirded out seeing normal peoples.

@phoebe5

5 ай бұрын

Is that what that is? I have like a little tiny hole in the roof of my mouth that I can feel with my tongue. Sometimes I used to be able to suck at it and I would taste blood. I've also been told that that part of the roof of my mouth is abnormally small.

@positivelynegative9149

5 ай бұрын

@@phoebe5 I would see a doctor about that. Even if you think it isn't a health concern right now, you never know what may develop later.

@phoebe5

4 ай бұрын

@@positivelynegative9149 I mean I work with a speech therapist for trans reasons and they didn't mention it. They did talk about the roof of my mouth bone whatever it's called being abnormally small but apparently the only thing that would really affect is if I were to get dentures. I get the concern but I'm not particularly worried about it if that's even what it is

@margodphd

4 ай бұрын

​@@phoebe5 blood should always be something that is looked into, whether you taste it, smell it or see it. It doesn't hurt to check, you may have a fistula there - an opening that isn't supposed to be there. They can be harmless, but this is place that is ripe for potentially threatening infection. Please don't ignore it.

I have a unilateral cleft lip and palate. This was so accurate, I was just checking all the boxes. I had my first surgery at 3 months, always had ear infections, went through speech therapy, had a bone graft followed by extensive orthodontics, and had a total of 12 surgeries. And I still have a hole in my palate and will never be able to breathe out of my left nostril. Thank you for spreading the information, I've found very few people who fully understand what it entails. I even saw a comic artist whose main character had a "hare lip" and it always bugged me how it was treated as some aesthetic quirk, when the reality is years of pain and trauma.

My husband is a dentist. I find this so fascinating!

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

🙌

I actually have a split uvula, and thought it was normal until a doctor pointed it out. This is so fascinating to learn about!!

I'm 70 and was born with a soft cleft palate. This video has really explained a lot to me. I had a partial repair done at the Sheffield Children's Hospital in the UK under the wonderful UK NHS (who I later worked for , for 35 years). It was only partially closed, the surgeons saying it would close naturally as I grew but it never did. Endless infections, asthma and digestive problems ensued, and deafness in one ear. But the operation did give me the ability to speak correctly. FANTASTIC CLIP, THANK YOU!

This is utterly mind blowing ... I never knew that my face was formed by this complicated process. I thought cleft palate was just a lip deformity...now I know more thanks...!

As a person who was born with this, thank you for the video ❤ for years I was wondering why and how this happen

@saschaesken5524

5 ай бұрын

Lack of B Vitamines espc.folic acid

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

@@saschaesken5524not necessarily true. I didn’t have a lack of either and yet my kiddo has a complete unilateral cleft lip and palate.

Thanks for explaining how facial clefts occur when things don't fuse together correctly. How about a video on WHY the fusion doesn't happen? 😊

@Fomites

5 ай бұрын

A video would be great but is it known why it fails to fuse?

@juliemarkham4332

5 ай бұрын

@@Fomites I was born with a cleft lip. I was told it's a combination of genetics and environment. I'd like to learn more about it.

@usedtiddyjuice

5 ай бұрын

Its like the baby making printer ran out of ink or something I was born with one of my ears not fully formed and I don’t have all of my adult teeth but I never really thought about why that is other than I have a twin so I just blamed him for not giving me enough room 😂

@BonaFideWildLife

5 ай бұрын

I'm disappointed that this video didn't address why the fusion doesn't happen. Specifically, it's pesticide exposure and/or folic acid deficiency.

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

@@BonaFideWildLifenot necessarily. I didn’t have a folic acid deficiency nor was I exposed to pesticides. And my kiddo’s genetics were analyzed, so it wasn’t that either. From the education we received, and the thorough review that our genetics specialist did, most cases they don’t know why. There isn’t a causal link that they can find.

I love your guys' videos.. They are always so explanitory!

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Love the way you teach. It’s like I get a glimpse of medical school, thank you for what you do. My girl was born with a cleft of the soft palate. It looked like someone took a tiny knife and cut her uvula right up the center up to her hard palate.

Thanks! I had cleft lip and pallet, had imagined how it would have formed. This video expanded my understanding.

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@TwilightFox_

3 ай бұрын

Woah

0:55 Love how comfortable you are at grabbing a bisected decapitated head

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Part of the job!

@Julia-uh4li

5 ай бұрын

​@@theanatomylab I'd love to donate myself to you guys! But my husband can't even handle me mentioning it to him. Any takers 😉🤣

This was so interesting 😮. My son, now 21 yrs, had a cleft palate. Needed 3 surgeries to fix.

@Lizziescrafted

3 ай бұрын

Fellow cleft momma here with a 7yr old, 4 surgeries in so far xx

I want to say thanks to the channel and to everyone sharing their stories in the comment section, thanks for spreading awareness and unerstanding. I have about finished the treatment trajectory for my bilateral cleft lip and palate and it means a lot to feel recognised in some way. I believe it would help people with CLP, socially, if more people knew what it was.

My grandson was born with a neuro development problem called Gand syndrome. A lot of research is being done in America into the causes etc. we live in Northern Ireland and although I have tried to understand some of the research papers, I’m not afraid to admit it goes way above my education level. Most doctors here don’t even know what it is. I would love for you to maybe explain it, as you have a great teaching style and make things easier to understand

I have a few video suggestions. 1. Types of allergies and how anaphylactic shock affects the body. 2. Food allergies vs. food intolerance vs. celiac disease.

I only have cleft lip but my uncle (my mother's side) and cousin (my father's side) has cleft palate, so I suppose it was genetic? I was lucky that I had the surgery early, I don't remember my time in the hospital at all and I have no problems with my speech (or health in general). I have a bad childhood because of it though since people my age thought I looked weird and as a shy girl, I grew up with very big insecurities about my face. I'm turning 29 this year and while I still have that insecurity, I adore younger kids who have cleft lip/palate and hope that they will grow up with confidence! Thanks for the informative video!

I was born with a cleft lip and palete. I have a scar on my face but the surgeons did an amazing job. I remember being 9 or 10 when i got my surgery to place a bone grapht from hip hip to close off my palete. I was in braces too and then i finally got a dental implant for my missing tooth in my top jaw. Now im 30 and i dont need any surgeries. I am confident and love to live life to the fullest

Awesome learning video on understanding all the issues & topics you show us. Sooo thanks for all the insights, really heps on the way we all can understand problems people have when meeting them in our day to day lives. So thank you❤

I have one, and i never actually thought to see why it happened. I got this recommended and it was very interesting! Thanks for explaining :D

I just saw this notif and I must say it made me feel some type of way (as a guy who has cleft lip but had it reconstructed in 2019 (UK) AND my tache covers it up kinda well but I play it extra well and apply black liquid lipsticks on it). Imo, I don’t need to know how a cl happens bc it makes me feel uncomfortable. I was subbed to this channel bc of the interesting content that’s out here. No one tells you how horrible it is to have a cl growing up. And as a guy too, it ruined my self confidence. I couldn’t have people having pictures of me unless I smiled so that you couldn’t tell I have a cl. It wasn’t until my 24th bday in 2019 when I didn’t smile that much and I looked at the picture and didn’t feel ugly for once. I just wished guys would be more vocal about their self confidence as I usually hear about girls and their experience….

@reddog-ex4dx

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experience.

@Serena-Vanderwoodsen

5 ай бұрын

@@reddog-ex4dxyou’re welcome.

I knew about this roughly but this was a really well put together explanation. I find it really fascinating, that in our development in the womb, we go through what could be called a micro evolution, where we speed through the pivotal points of our past evolution as a species but even as a living being on earth to reconstruct our current human body plan. It is as though we biologically remember and rehearse our evolution. Its poetry.

Fellow cleft momma here with a 7yr old, 4 surgeries in so far. Thank you for the video as it helps me understand a bit more on how she was developed correctly as I was told once.. xx

This was very well explained thank you. I am 37 weeks pregnant and my father in law was born with cleft lip therefore it was monitored during my baby’s development in the womb. In New Zealand the scans and doctors said it’s actually very hard to see cleft pallet on scans and sometimes will not be seen until birth.

@amethystfeathers7324

5 ай бұрын

I'm a Kiwi in Auckland and my granddaughter's cleft was only detected at her last scan. She's 7 now and we're so grateful for all the care she has received so far. She's a beautiful girl with a tiny lip scar at this point.

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

My kiddo has unilateral cleft lip and palate. Lip was seen on regular ultrasound, but the palate could only be identified by a 3D ultrasound. It was confirmed because they could see her sticking her tongue up into her sinuses! 😂

I never thought or how I feel that I was born cleft, palate and deaf. Idk if this cause me deaf when I was 5 or 6 years old. I wear hearing aid. I’ve been a lot of surgery in LA children hospital. Idk how many time. My last surgery was jaw cause I had upper or under teeth. I don’t remember that much. I was 17 years old and now I’m 30 years old.

After further analysis, it is micro strategy the company appeared to have potentially hacked into the channel

Thanks for doing this. My kiddo is 2.5 yrs and was born with a complete unilateral cleft lip and palate. It’s been a wild journey of learning and 5 surgeries so far (she has had lots of complications). Thankfully, I live in Canada, so everything is covered (minus orthodontics). Our children’s hospital has a comprehensive cleft clinic where all of the specialties work together, and we have the same team until she is 18 years old. It’s been amazing and I’m so thankful!

Great video; very informative as always. I had always thought that the reason why single clefts (which I now know from this video are called unilateral clefts) were to one side was simply because their position was just due to random chance during their formation. I had no idea that the philtrum was formed from an entirely different mass of tissue.

I was born with a minimal cleft lip, and was lucky enough to only need one surgery as an infant. I have always been super self conscious about how it made me look, especially when I was a kid. But I am so grateful that I have not had to experience the same array of difficulties that others with cleft lips and pallets have gone through especially considering the costs and the American health care system. Very informative video, I have always wanted to know more about the science behind this type of development.

@Providence83

5 ай бұрын

I'm the same as you minus the consciousness. Reading the plethora of less fortunate comments really makes you go "WOW, THAT _SUCKS."_

Great explanation!

I was born with cleft lip and I'm very lucky I was in such professional hands, it looks pretty normal. There was this time though that one surgeon told me that it was very good but could be better with current procedures and I even got offended, it took me lots of time specially in my teen years to love myself and now it's just a part of who I am :) I would definitely not go under any procedure to make it look more "normal". Sending lots of strength to those going through surgeries rn!

It’s amazing how the body is made!

This video is very interesting, but it doesn't really explain *why* cleft happen; it explains *how* it happens. I used to be a lactation consultant, and others had told me that clefts are caused by vitamin deficiencies, A or E (I don't remember), which is why you see clefts more often in poverty/famine stricken areas. One lactation consultant I interned with was seeing clefts more often than in the past, and she thought this was caused by anti-depressant use during pregnancy. So, *why* do cleft occur? Is it, indeed, from vitamin deficiencies? Can we prevent clefts by making sure all child-bearing aged women have vitamin A/E supplements?

@julietardos5044

5 ай бұрын

Adding to my initial comment about Why vs How, I've seen a lot of confusion over the use of the word Why. It seems that there is a shift going on changing the meaning of the word Why to How or In what way, but not Why. How are we going to ask Why in the future when the word no longer means that?

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Orofacial clefts have multiple potential causes, but it’s not as clear cut as you believe. A 2021 study out of India showed that despite a 6.5x deficiency in Folate and B Vitamins, it couldn’t be determined that the deficiency caused the orofacial clefts. The only thing experts are willing to say at this point is that a combination of environmental and genetic factors are at play. Getting specific around which factors hasn’t proven to be as useful as many believe it to be.

Very informative 👍🏻

Thanks so much for all your efforts in sending out so many informative videos, on the subject of cleft lip n pallette, we had a daughter born in December 2017 with double cleft lip n pallette, who also had trisomy 13, from which she passed away at 42 hours old, it's very interesting to me to see more explanation on this subject, thanks again!!

@mrsbobanna

4 ай бұрын

RIP little one

Thanks for the info!!!! but I am left wondering what exactly causes the palate not to form normally and fuse together correctly.

Thanks for all the knowledge you impart over here! Can you do a video on the Linburg-Comstock Anomaly?

Amazing information, thank you

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

🙌

That is very interesting, and with all my health issues im so glad to live in the UK, i really wish you could all have a similar form of mdical assistance. anyway, thak you for explaining all of that, all the best and Happy new year everyone.

Both my wife and my daughter were born with clefts. My wife a unilateral cleft lip and palate and my daughter a bilateral cleft lip and palate. My daughter is going to have her bone graft surgery this year. In Australia our health system pays for everything including any cosmetic surgery up to 21 years old I believe. Learning first hand what my wife and her parent went through first hand with our daughter has been insightful. Any child can be born with much more difficult medical conditions but watching our daughter go through this process with little concern is a testiment to the human spirit. A final anecdote that we and other cleft parents will say is that you get used to your babys big open smile where their hole face opens as they smile. Everyone loves their children more than anything. So after their first surgery, you see your baby with such a small mouth and smile. It takes a while to get used to their new face, but their smile gets bigger again and it is just wonderful :)

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

I just had a photo printed of my kiddos cleftie smile. I miss it, but I’m so thankful for her beautiful smile now. There is nothing like a giant cleftie smile! 😍🥰😍

You are a fantastic teacher! Thank you for the new information!!

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Wow... amazingly explained, thank you 😄

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I'm amazed....Thank you so much, well explained 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Great video! I know you can’t touch on every type of cleft, but this was really interesting. I'm 52 and i was born in Australia with a bilateral oro ocular cleft (Tessier #4 bilateral). It's amazing to see how far cleft surgery has come since the early 1970's :’)

I didn't know about this condition before. Thank you

This is a great explanation! :)

I am SO grateful our NHS in the UK! Fascinating video 😊

Why is it a common feature of FASD for children to lack of a philtrum? Does alcohol in the womb also cause cleft lips, and the lack of a philtrum is improper adhesion that managed to correct itself?

My goodness, there are some real idiots in these comments. Why come here for that? This is a great teaching/learning channel. I wish everyone would be more respectful here. Okay guys, come at me 🙄

So is there a pattern where the tissues ever OVERGROW? As in, a tight lingual frenulum together with, say, the nasal tissues or what have you? And do cleft palates indicate other potential closure issues in other parts of the body?

Hope you can recover your channels from these foul, bored, cringe criminal hackers.

for me, this was one of the most 'mind-blowing' THANK you again lads!

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Ideally nasoalveolar moulding is required before going for lip surgery at 10 weeks. It has to be undertaken immediately after birth during the first 6 weeks after birth. Nice video.

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

Here at our clinic, they stopped doing NAM devices (starts at 5/6 ish weeks) and only did lip taping during Covid. They discovered that the majority of cases had similar results with just lip taping and a nasal stent. That’s what my daughter received and it was wild to see how quickly things moved and changed!

@nitin4799

5 ай бұрын

@@kendalldelamont2840 yeah. With just dynacleft( adhesive tape) and nasal stent same results are achieved.

@nitin4799

5 ай бұрын

I just wanted to tell the people who made this video regarding presurgical procedures like nasoalveolar moulding or adhesive tape and nasal elevators

This is the first time I've ever appreciated hearing about the sponsor 😆

I am in my 30s and only had a unilateral cleft ... my only surgery was when i was 3months old. Very informative x

This was interesting to understand. I grew up having a cleft lip and palate and always had to go to doctor appts for it and surgeries. Had to have it done twice for cleft lip due to it getting infected the first time. Cleft palate recovery never worked and can make a whistle noise that's annoying when sipping. Scar would always have people stare to the point it was an awkward starring contest or purposely point it out to everyone. Scar is still there but not as prominent for people to stare. Would get ear infections all the time and still do after 25 years later.

I was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate (first and second palate) on my right side. I had my first surgery at between 5 and 6 months old to close my lip (it doesn't look to obvious, most people think I just had some kind of accident or injury and are quite surprised when I tell them it is actually due to a cleft lip and palate) and then my second surgery at 11 months old to join/close my palate. My mother had to feed be by basically holding me upright, putting in a silicone fob that sealed off the roof of my mouth and then basically put the bottle in my mouth and squeeze the bottle to spray the milk into my mouth as I couldn't create enough suction to drink from the bottle myself. I still have a small hole in my palate to this day. I had surgery at around 5 years old where they took cartilage from behind my right ear and transplanted it into my nose to build it up a bit/make it look more "normal", but when I woke up after surgery I ripped the bandages off and tore out some stitches which had an impact on the result of the surgery. I had speech therapy as a kid to correct my speech(now 32 years old) and the only other problems I have that is related to that is that my Eustachian tubes did not develop properly so I had around 10-12 surgeries for grommets and then between the ages of 15 and 16 the had rebuilt both of my eardrums, my hearing is slightly affected but I have learned to read lips from a young age so it doesn't have any real affect on my daily life. I had a deviated septum (assuming as result of either the surgery as a kid where I ripped the bandages, or from birth) which has been corrected, and then I also had quite a bit of dental work that had to be done(implants, etc.). I was fortunate enough that my parents had medical aid (private healthcare in South Africa) and that it covered all of the specialists (reconstructive surgeon, ENT specialist, orthodontics, etc.).

I've been interested in cleft palates since I was young, its really cool to see why they happen. even more interesting though is that donor, I had no idea what an educational body specimen actually looked like. how wild to know that used to be a living person and now we are able to learn from them!

Gracias me gusto mucho el vídeo saludos 🇻🇪🙏

The human body is fascinating. Great video as always. I started donating to Operation Smile some time ago. Hopefully it helps.

With the physical illustration i can understand better why i have swallowing issues re things going up into the back of my nose. That lil flap bit that covers the back of the throat so things go where they should is damaged and i was born with it only partially there. Definitely a magnet for infection and can say fizzy things up the back of the nose can be painful!

I appreciate all those who came forth to share their stories about their personal experiences with this issue.❤ I thought it only affected developing countries.

omg I had this THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT IT

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

what is the relationship between folic acid and cleft palate?

Thank you very much for your valuable information ♥👍👍

@theanatomylab

5 ай бұрын

You are most welcome

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Hi, I’m in the process of watching the IofHA’s video on how caffeine affects the body, but thought I would jump on a newer video immediately the hopes my special request might be seen. Can you please do a video on how Kratom affects the body and brain? Thank you, and thank you for your marvelous education. I really appreciate the practicality of them, and how you make your anatomy presentations understandable to lay persons like myself, but also sophisticated enough to where I’m able to use your content as a reliable primary source. They’re very useful when I use the information you present as a guide to get lost on the web when doing further research and exploration on the facts, concepts, and processes you describe. Nice work!

Does the nutrition or diet of the mother affect the chances of a cleft pallet?

@InfuzeDcyphR

5 ай бұрын

Some medications have it as a risk side effect. It happened to my mother which caused me to get cleft.

My cousin was born with a partial cleft palate and a detached uvula. It took at least two surgeries, speech therapy, etc. Now she's able to talk and eat normally. It adds another level of compassion for people that go thru this.

Hey wasn't expecting video about my trademark,cool.

I was born with a cleft palate (not a cleft lip.) I was a preemie (two months early) born in the 60's. When I was five or six I went to the dentist for the first time and he asked what a spot on the roof of my mouth was. I don't remember if I knew at that time, but it was (is) a hole that goes through my soft palate. Not sure if stitches broke (I was a year old when they stitched it up) or if it's a second tiny pin-sized cleft. It goes to my nasal cavity, so not to be gross but I can suck the nasal mucus out. 🤢 It comes in handy though. I can also suck air through it and make a sound. But I never thought anything of it before then. I thought everyone had one. Literally everyone who worked there-dentists, assistants, secretaries-all got to peer into my tiny mouth to see a tiny spot. My jaw was so sore by the end of the appointment. It doesn't really bother me much. It doesn't leak but allergies do make it itchy once in a great while. Otherwise, no biggie.

Good job from India 👍👌

Thank you for the great explanation of cleft pallets. What I would like to know is what causes cleft pallets? I at one time thought it was a nutritional deficiency during pregnancy. Any insight you can provide on causes would be great. Thank you!

@kendalldelamont2840

5 ай бұрын

From the learning I have done from our cleft clinic here (my kiddo was born with unilateral cleft lip and palate), 30% or fewer are due to a genetic variant. 70% are “random” cases. There are some that *may* be due to some exposures or nutritional deficiencies, but the vast majority are unknown and currently are labeled as “random” cases of cleft.

Let’s all thank the donor who gave her/his body to science

Oh man I actually have experience with this one! Imma bi-lateral cleft lip and hole in hard palate plus a shortened soft pallet, but here I am about 23 years later. Just big chillin, shout out mom and dad for being able to take care of me and the many teams of doctors who’ve done excellent work to put my face together properly.

@Lizziescrafted

3 ай бұрын

cleft momma here with a 7yr old, 4 surgeries in so far xx

is the channel hacked?

My boyfriend has a cleft lip and palate. He had his lip fixed but not his palate. It was nice to understand him better.

Have you ever done a video on what causes Tinnitus? Would tinnitus have anything to do with the upper palate?

@reddog-ex4dx

5 ай бұрын

Yes. PLEASE!

@Julia-uh4li

5 ай бұрын

My ears are driving me mad as I'm reading your comment. I've had the condition pretty much all my life. My mother thinks I began complaining about the ringing after an older child slammed my head into a metal chain link fence post when I was 6 & I still have a permanent lump on my head. I'm in my late 50s now. I would like to hear them cover this topic and even tell us if there is a treatment worth trying. Thanks for the suggestion!

That explains my daughters ear infections that she had as an infant and then had to have surgery to fix an ear drum. The doctor's didnt find her cleft palette until she was 14 and had an operation to fix it. She had speech therapy from 5 years until they found cleft palette.

Artaries Carry stuff tanga the tissue . Vaina Carry stuff like waste and fat away from the lungs . But loo ok looking pathways it makes no sense. Does Urea have to all the way around from the tissue to the lungs back to the arties just to be disposed of . And what about amonia from above the liver and heart. I think things like fats or hormones might be able to defuse directly from some blood vessels to tissue ti other blood vessels going in difference direction some are infect right on to or next to another . But every opportunity would miya the Kidneys

My lip are unaffected but the inner pallet is cleft. causes issues with getting viral infections easier, constant post nasal drip.

Thank you 👍🏻

Crazy, I never knew how impactfull this is and how much it takes to fix.

I assist to a few very difficult Face and Accident Injuries....and I'm a strong Believer in the "Art" of Reconstruction some golden Hands of gorgeous Surgeons can do! To find somebody I could learn from was a big Gift for me ....I'm 68 now, soon 69, but I'm in Pension - and still learning and curious what is possible today! Medicin is sometimes doing "Wonders" - and I'm happy for you, never mind how painful it has been! It makes your Life of sure safer and better! Hope the Best, stay healthy and lucky forever ,🥰🙏🏼🍀🍀🍀✌🏼❣️